"Was This My Punishment? To Live Out The Reality Of My Dream And Find Out That Its Glittering Beauty
"Was this my punishment? To live out the reality of my dream and find out that its glittering beauty faded to nothing when I stepped close?" - Jennifer Saint, Ariadne
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— Mary Oliver, The Pond
"She says nothing at all, but simply stares upward into the dark sky and watches, with sad eyes, the slow dance of the infinite stars." - Neil Gaiman, Stardust
what did you learn this year ?
"There: soft fingers on vibrating steel, and a chord, shimmered into the air, nebulous and milky, like light from an old, old star. A voice: warm and low and gentle, a voice to cast spells, charm snakes, shape the course of dreams." - Gail Honeyman, Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine
"And so my days drifted by, a joyous mix of sun worship, escaping from lessons, and the heavy leaden smell of paint." - Laura Shepperson, Phaedra
Eliana Arvizu
“And she went into the sea because her core ached and there was no healing.”
May Sarton, from "She Shall Be Called Woman", Selected Poems
"[He] could smell the distant winter on the air -- a mixture of night-mist and crisp darkness and the tang of fallen leaves." - Neil Gaiman, Stardust
Hotel Santa Carina
“Human lives are based on pain. But to have a few moments of happiness, lightnings tearing the darkness of the sky, that is worth it.”
- Costanza Casati, Clytemnestra
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